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So what should the world learn from the country’s descent into misery?
Misery and magnificence, seduction and neurosis create and recreate the dynamic, unmistakable spectrum of New York life.
Only when fiscal austerity is implemented (or at least threatened), and a population is faced with rising unemployment and widespread economic misery, is a country motivated to pursue them.
Today, the struggling eurozone countries need positive expectations and rewards, not more misery.
No political system capable of overcoming hardship and misery can be built without first realizing improvements in the economy's potential.
They are dreaming of Germany – not any European country, but specifically Germany – the way, more than a century ago, Europe’s poor, fleeing misery – and, in some cases, pogroms – dreamed of America.
There is no longer any excuse for leaving well over a billion people in abject misery.
The reality is that we can have as large a financial boom and subsequent bust as we just experienced, resulting in the same economic misery, in a world made up only of small banks.
The shoot-out’s individual competition for heroism or misery is really alien to such a team game as football, but it is accepted as a necessary way to resolve the stalemate.
They recognize, of course, the differences between a closed society, distorted by terror and misery, and an open society, distorted by selfish competition and trivial publicity.
If they do not break their intellectual chains, they will secure for themselves nothing but more misery.
Whether the Yellow Vests declare a moratorium or continue to protest, nothing would serve their cause better than to dissociate themselves – decisively and unambiguously – from all the political profiteers who would capitalize on their misery.
But one fears that something more dreadful than the daily misery must occur before India's politicians decide to act.
Being born poor or in a remote village should not consign anybody to the misery of going without decent health care.
There are many reasons for this political earthquake, but the biggest are the enduring misery of depressed living standards, double-digit unemployment rates, and diminished hopes for the future.
Preserving democratic values is hard when large sectors cannot integrate with the global market, when misery obliterates human dignity and a lack of options makes freedom meaningless.
The third factor is the willingness of outside groups – both states and non-state groups – to prolong Iraq’s misery by supporting the insurgency, whether overtly or by inaction.
Will the current economic reforms reduce inequality, or will the prosperity of some continue to be built on the misery of others?
There was also his commitment to fight poverty: “To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required – not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.
Rather than resign ourselves to more years of hate and misery, it is urgent that the foundations for future peace be rebuilt before all civilized structures are swept away.
Although we cannot know how many lives would be lost and how much misery would be inflicted in an invasion of Iraq to oust Saddam's regime, the cost would unquestionably be great.
In the modern fairytale version of the story, Pandora is depicted as a tragically curious young woman who opens a sealed urn and inadvertently releases eternal misery on humankind.
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has a good record of questioning the wisdom of the intifada that has taken too many lives and caused only misery and destruction on all sides of this enduring conflict.
As they cut, output fell further and economic misery deepened.
His carnivalesque odyssey of totalitarianism displays a world of misery, boredom, and obedience in its dark journey to an unreachable paradise.
Superficially, this makes morally motivated wars easier: scenes of misery on TV incite visceral emotional reactions and feelings of solidarity.
He speaks the language of populism, raising hopes for the vast majority of South Africans who daily endure the misery of poor housing, schools, and health care.
Beyond the need to alleviate the human misery that fills television screens and front pages of newspapers lies the imperative not to miss the significant medium-term opportunities that migration provides.
Poverty, Social Spending, and IMF Programs: Myth vs. RealityWASHINGTON, D.C.: An oft-repeated claim is that the IMF is responsible for increasing human misery in developing countries - in particular, by forcing countries to cut spending on programs like health and education.
We have already experienced the onset of this misery in recent years, with a spate of devastating famines, floods, and other climate-related disasters.
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